Its going to depend what area of Wauwatosa you are in as some areas command both higher prices and higher rents. Most recent sales (last 6 months) for 3 bedroom duplexes in Wauwatosa range from $183,000 to $315,000. Rent range for those same sold properties range from $725-1200...again depending on the area and the overall size.

If you would like to see the available Wauwatosa duplexes please let me know and I can send you a complete list.

There are two types of potential foreclosures: judicial foreclosures and non-judicial foreclosures. Judicial foreclosures require that a court approve and oversee foreclosure auctions. Non-judicial foreclosures allow the lender, whether a bank, government agency, or private lender, to schedule, arrange, and oversee a foreclosure auction on their own.

Depending on whether the law in your state requires judicial foreclosures or not, foreclosure auctions will either be held by a representative of the court, such as the County Clerk or Sheriff, or a trustee of the lender, usually a lawyer or representative of the bank or government agency.

Read more: How Does a Foreclosure Auction Work? - Foreclosure Homes on Sale http://www.foreclosurehomesonsale.com/blog/how-does-a-foreclosure-auction-work/#ixzz2CFCNy0dj... more

Houses are out there. I just sold a foreclosure in Wauwatosa. The best way to find them is through an experienced realtor. There are codes for foreclosures that you don't find on Trulia and realtor.com etc. Have an agent help you.

Expired, no longer active on the market. It was a short sale as well, you can alway contact the seller directly. You can find out more by searching public records, try your county assessors site, do a parcel search which you can do by full address or their name if you know it.

Short and simple. I consider myself to be a successful realtor, yet if I were to put my home on the market it would either be with another agent or at the least co-broke with another agent. A doctor doesn't operate on him/herself. A good attorney does not represent him/herself in the court room.

There is a reason why 87 percent of homes are listed with real estate brokers as opposed to selling it themselves.

Also, I agree with most of the previous comments. I work with many buyers and I have ALWAYS 100 % OF THE TIME gotten the same reaction when the seller was in the home. It usually goes like this, "Oh, no. You mean we have to go through while the seller is there??????"

Buyer's want to picture themselves in "THE" home, not your home. This is one of the reasons why we strongly suggest removing family photos and very personalized collections. This is why when a home is staged like model home - furnishings minus personal items - they tend to sell much quicker.

And keep in mind that what you believe to be an asset may very well be a detourant to the potential buyer. A good example of this just happened to me recently. I was showing a home to my buyers who made it clear that as soon as they move in they were going to begin to raise a family. While standing in the backyard, I made the comment that this might be nice for them because it looked like they had kids next door and it seemed like a quiet, friendly place to raise children. Little did I know that at that same moment Mrs. Buyer was worried about the fact that her husband is gone all week and when he gets home on the weekend, he likes to sit in the back yard with his friends and they make a lot of noise sometimes until quite late. So........ the very thing that I thought would be a plus actually turned out to be a major drawback.

Just my thoughts.

And as to what you're "paying them for". Someday when I'm not soooooo busy working for my clients, I think I am going to do a breakdown of everything that I as an agent does on a daily basis. It really isn't fair for us as agents to automatically expect the seller to know what we all do behind the scenes to sell their home. When I do I will post it here. Watch for the update.

Short answer, unfortunately, is no. There's no such index that I know of.

However, your question piqued my curiosity and I just logged into the MLS (MRIS where I'm located). Our system tracks seller subsidies. And when we're doing a CMA (pulling up actives and past sales), we can include a seller subsidy field. And we can also export the data. I've done similar exports before into Excel.

So, it'd be entirely possible in our system to export sales, identify the seller subsidy, build some formulas in Excel to show seller subsidy as percent of sales price, then sort or analyze by date range. And then, if I wanted, I could even plot the data as graphs and look for correlations between, say, seller subsidy percentage and market prices. Now, different MLS systems have different capabilities, and I don't know if what you have in Wisconsin can do the same thing. But the keys are the seller subsidy being tracked, whether it's exportable, and whether the data can be pumped into a program that can do data analysis.

The real question, though, is whether the data would help predict market trends. I don't know. My gut reaction is no, it wouldn't. Seller subsidy IS a reflection of market softness. The more of a buyer's market it is--the more buyers can dictate terms--the more likely you are to see a seller subsidy. But I suspect that the increase or decrease in seller subsidy would track, rather than being a leading indicator of, market conditions. Still, I might play around with the data.

The Mls tax sheet shows this property was transfered from an estate in 2003 to an individual for $161,500. It shows this individual conveying to a LLC for $146,000 on 4/17/2009. The home was then put in MLS on 4/27/2009 and sold in November 2009 for $175,000 after a series of price reductions. I would think, most likely something happened, where the owner from 2003-2009 had to sell quick and accepted an offer from a cash home buyer, who then cleaned up the house and flipped it for a quick profit. Since the individual lived in it for about 6 years, I would think there was not much concern for ghosts but who knows.

Homes of this age normally have had many occupants and finding out if any passed away in the home would be very difficult to ascertain. I would agree with Brad, there are probably fewer people who pass on in their homes today as may have in the past, due to changes in elder care, nursing homes, hospices etc. Agents are not required to disclose or search for data regarding deaths occurring in homes, although if asked a direct question, they would likely want to get advise from their counsel, and in particularly gruesome situations, may chose to do so with the permission of the seller. When Jeffrey Dahmer's grandmother's house was for sale, the listing company made a point of disclosing this. These situations are rare. I had a home for sale, where between accepted offer and closing, an indian burial pit was found. The title company put an exception to title for any rights The Indian Nation may have. This needs to be disclosed. There is a procedure for proper exhumation and re-burial and it is possible subsequent title companies may not have to disclose this, if they felt these rights have been extinguished by this procedure. Some attorneys believe, disclose, disclose, disclose to avoid any questions about subsequent liability. Others do not.... more

good afternoon...i have read and agree with the below answers.....usually a first paycheck stub will show he's employed.....since he is new on the job, the lender will send a voe (verifiacation of employment ) to your husband's place of work.........it is a fannie mae form that is "fill in the blank"....and is required since he hasn't been there two years....if the voe comes back as temporary status....you cannot close until the temp. status is lifted..i am sure he's full time, but he could be on a 90 day "look-see".....he can ask in advance.then ust schedule the closing around the revised voe and give it a few days to be signed off by an underwriter.i hope that helps...bob mcclure- success mortgage partners- plymouth, michgan........ more